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Originally Posted by Radio
In the winters in WWII tank crews started the engines at intervals all night so they would not only not freeze, but start quickly if needed....
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Many WW2 tanks had air-cooled radial engines nearly identical to aircraft engines. No freezing worries, but you'd sure like to be able to start them quickly. This was true of some Sherman tanks (Wright R-675), but other Shermans had Ford V8s or any of a considerable variety of other engines, some (such as the Chrysler multibank) really bizarre.
Shermans weren't the only tanks with radial engines, either.